Christmas Past Participle
Scrooge is paid a visit by the grammar police
QuotaBillsI am 46, and have been for some time past. - Anita Brookner
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. - Oscar Wilde
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour. - Horace
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post. - L. Thomas Holdcroft
Those who forget their past are destined to repeat it. - Robert A. Heinlein
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Miguel De Cervantes
Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund
You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf
Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore. - Unknown
I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today. - Dwayne Johnson
Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we've got television. - Archie Bunker
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. - Ayn Rand
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it. - Soren Kierkegaard
Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door. - Kyle Chandler
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. - T D Jakes
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. - Rick Pitino
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. - Jack London
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin
If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller
Past is dead. Future is uncertain. Present is all you have, so eat, drink and live merry. - Albert Einstein
Death is the last enemy; once we've got past that I think everything will be all right. - Alice Thomas Ellis
And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future. - Han Nolan
Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, the neglected opportunity. - Omar Ibnal-Halif
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future. - Titian
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. - Gail L. Buckley
One day you'll find someone who doesn't care about your past because they want to be your future. - Unknown
The present contains nothing more than the past. And what is found in the effect was already in the cause. - Henri Bergson
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. - T D Jakes
The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me. - Cressida Cowell
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. - Andre Gide
We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas
I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put
the batteries. - Milton Berle
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple
When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass. - Bobby Knight
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. - Edna Ferber
We cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. - Henry David Thoreau